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标题："Mitigation, adaptation, suffering": In search of the right mix in the face of climate change
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作者：Henry TULKENS ; Vincent VAN STEENBERGHE
期刊名称：CORE Discussion Papers / Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (UCL), Louvain
出版年度：2009
卷号：1
出版社：Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (UCL), Louvain
摘要：The usually assumed two categories of costs involved in climate change policy analysis, namely abatement and damage costs, hide the presence of a third category, namely adaptation costs. This dodges the determination of an appropriate level for them. Including adaptation costs explicitly in the total environmental cost function allows one to characterize the optimal (cost minimizing) balance between the three categories, in statics as well adynamics. Implications are derived for cost benefit analysis of adaptation expenditures.
关键词：.cost of climate change, adaptation, mitigation, residual cost, envelope cost function, cost benefit analysis